NCASLA Has Partnered with the North Carolina Main Street and Rural Planning Center and their Creating Outdoor Recreation Economies (CORE) and Rural Community Capacity (RC2) programs to develop the first of a new series of volunteer efforts to help small North Carolina towns with formulating a vision, a plan, and implementation strategies for a downtown space in need of minds like YOURS.
NCASLA volunteers will be joining the Town of Roseboro on October 10th to gather design ideas, develop a program, and determine steps for the implementation of a downtown civic space adjacent to their historic main street. We need your help to bring them a vision and design via a one-day workshop and early evening presentation of its results to the Town Council that evening. This is an opportunity for you to gain experience in Urban Planning + Design and to help give back to the greater NC and NCASLA community all without having to market your way to winning the project. We need your ideas and your expertise to help a town with limited resources to attain a workable solution for a critical downtown space that can help propel the Town of Roseboro into a prosperous future. They gain from our expertise, and we gain from the experience. It’s a classic “Win-Win” for all involved.
The plan is to meet in downtown Roseboro in the morning on Tuesday, October 10th, and will follow the general agenda below:
10:00 am – 11:00 am – Meet on Main Street for a project info download and a Site Visit.
11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Develop a list of site Opportunities + Constraints
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Determine preferred Site Program over lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Site Design Charette to develop a preferred site layout
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Develop and refine the Preferred Site Plan + Implementation Strategy
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm– Volunteer team to create a PowerPoint Presentation for Town Council over dinner
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Presentation of Workshop Results to Town Council
This one-day commitment will give you fantastic experience in urban design for a rural community, exposure to the ideas and planning + design thoughts of others within the profession, and will be rewarding in its value to a community that can absolutely use our help in progressing their vision for the future of their downtown.
If you have an interest in volunteering and participating in part or in full for the workshop, please contact Dan Lambert at lambert@mcadamsco.com with your interest and availability.